# First names you hate **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 21, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527 "2016-09-21T19:46:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/61 "2016-09-23T04:03:15Z")
Guy Ernest Louis Marie and something other Debord ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/62 "2016-09-27T23:17:28Z")
My name; Janet My sisters name Julie Gladys or any name that has the y with an s after it or any of them that have to have a letter following the Y, another one Cheryl. Used to be I’d have problems spelling them Agree with Khreative spellings Putting two or more names together Names you have no idea how to pronounce I do like all the months names. Number names would be cool too! Unique names can only go so far before they become ridiculous! ---
**Author:** ![Neo-Calredic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/96bed5/32.png) [@Neo-Calredic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neo-Calredic)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/63 "2016-09-27T23:22:50Z")
Brett. I’ve known multiple Bretts, and every last one was a shitty human being. Not saying that proves anything, but it’s enough to make me dislike the name. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/64 "2016-09-28T05:23:01Z")
> [@Rantini](#): > > There is just something about the name Samantha that grinds my gears. I hate it. > > I also dislike: > > Maxine > Jade > Charlie > Jayden > Kai > Joan > Fleur > Margaret > Brian > Gemma > Peter > > and many, many more but I’m starting to feel annoyed so I’ll leave it there. I’ve always loved the names Samantha and Gemma. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/65 "2016-09-28T06:08:36Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Kaylee, Kayden, Braden, Jayden, Caitlin…anything similar to that. It’s not ugly, it’s just been done. To death. Caitlin not so much but all the others? Agree! > [@even\_sven](#): > > I love Beatrice! I would have used it if > I could have. I too love the name Beatrice. Also dislike Samantha\*, Tiffany, Tabitha, Sylvia, Gloria, Celia and similarly saccharine names. Blokes? Wayne, Dwayne, Rick, Percy and Cyril (thankfully the last two seem to have disappeared from the birth notices for the most part). \*Funnily enough, I know a number of Samanthas and they’re all great ladies. Shame about their name though. ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/66 "2016-09-28T13:20:45Z")
I have a friend that named his son Truce. When I asked him if he wanted him to be a peacemaker or a calm kid or something, he replied that they didn’t actually know what the word meant when they picked it. Just liked the way it sounded. This is coming from a native English speaker. :smack: My favourite names to hate are anything ending in “aiden.” Including “Aiden.” I picked a traditional name for my son and am incredibly proud of our choice when I introduce him and don’t to say something like ‘spelled like it sounds, but with 2 extra “y’s”’ or 'his name is “Prolapse.” I didn’t know, I just liked the sound." ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/67 "2016-09-28T14:14:51Z")
Helen. My mother’s name has bad association s for me. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/68 "2016-09-28T16:40:46Z")
People named Julie or Brad always seem to be assholes, in my experience. Name your girl Bertha and you might as well say “she’s gonna weigh 300 lbs!” Trendy names like Tiffany, Courtney, Noah. Jasmine or the 900 variants thereof. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/69 "2016-09-28T18:04:29Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > he didn’t pull out, so we’ll call you Destiny. The old Indian is sitting in front of his lodge one day, and his son comes up and says, “Father, I want to ask you a question.” “Certainly, my son”, says the old chief. “This is how our people communicate the traditions of our ancestors to our children. Ask away.” “Well, Father, I was wondering where Indians get their names.” "A good question, my son. The Indian always gets his name from the first thing the parents notice when the child has been conceived. For instance, one night your mother and I had just finished making love, and I looked up thru the top of the teepee and saw a beautiful full moon. Thus, your little sister is called Silver Moon. Another time, your mother and I were out in the woods. We decided to make love out there, and when we were finished, I rolled over and rustled some leaves, and it startled a deer, who ran off. So your little brother is named Running Deer. So that is how the Indian gets his name." “Thank you, Father, for taking the time to explain it”, says his son. His father says, “That’s OK, Broken Rubber. Any time!” Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![brainstall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/70 "2016-09-28T18:20:46Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Khreative spellings. “Y” should only be the last letter in a name, & if you have an “i” where a “y” should be at the end, your professional career probably involves a pole & dollar bills, _especially_ if you write the dot over the “i” as a big circle or, even worse, a heart. > Any name that’s a word: Hope, Faith, Chastity (!), he didn’t pull out, so we’ll call you Destiny, June, Summer, etc. I worked for a short time with a Mysti. I always wondered if the highest aspirations her mom had for her was to grow up to be a stripper. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/71 "2016-09-28T18:39:25Z")
I know this will be a shocker . . . my first name is Jennifer! I am very insistent on being called “Jenn” and won’t answer to “Jenny” or “Jennifer.” I’ve never like my name, but I didn’t have any say in it 🙂 I would have named myself “Scout” (yes, really!) As an educator of young adults I am thoroughly exhausted by all the Caitlins, Brittanys, and the thousand variants on these names. I’m noticing a developing trend in 18 and 19-year-olds having rather classic names: Joshua, Susan, Jennifer, Robert – rather nice after years of having 12 students in a classroom with the same frickin name! ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/72 "2016-09-28T18:45:03Z")
Forgot to add: Mom came hideously close to naming me **Clementine** after my grandfather Clement. I was saved from having “Oh My Darling Clementine” sung to me every day of my life. There are male names that I like, but don’t care for their shortened versions: Robert, but not Bobby Joshua, but not Josh William, but not Billy Matthew, but not Matt ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/73 "2016-09-28T19:55:55Z")
My mom wanted to name me Michelle, and call me Mickey. Mickey! What kind of sick person would do that to a kid? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/74 "2016-09-28T22:04:58Z")
> [@WildBlueYonder](#): > > Gladys or any name that has the y with an s after it or any of them that have to have a letter following the Y, another one Cheryl. Used to be I’d have problems spelling them How about Gwendolyn? I am Gwendolen precisely because my father did not want that y dangling below the line. ---
**Author:** ![SUZ\_MAC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@SUZ\_MAC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SUZ_MAC)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/75 "2016-09-28T22:36:34Z")
My sister (who died when she was 3 days old) was named Laura after my fathers mother. So when I was born my Mom’s mother thought it only right I be named after her. Thank God I was born on my mom’s birthday otherwise I could have been a Mildred (Millie for short). ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/76 "2016-09-28T23:19:29Z")
I was named Larry Richard Allen [I leave off my last name]. I detested the name Larry all throughout my life for some reason. Just a dorky name to me. I will still answer to it, but professionally I go by Laurence, since I am a bit French in that way. My ex-wife and I named our two daughters “Malaika” which is Swahili for “Angel”, and my number 2 daughters’ name is “Chanel” because she smelled good at birth. (Sorta joking there). Not sure how they like their given names, but I like them when they roll off my tongue. ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/77 "2016-09-28T23:42:06Z")
> [@SUZ\_MAC](#): > > My sister (who died when she was 3 days old) was named C after my fathers mother. So when I was born my Mom’s mother thought it only right I be named after her. Thank God I was born on my mom’s birthday otherwise I could have been a Mildred (Millie for short). Lauren is a great name! Millie…I like too. You don’t have answer but your screen name is intriguing. Me? Cabin\_Fever was self-explanatory. It is funny how we grow up with our given names. Hey! We didn’t exactly a choice here. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/78 "2016-09-29T22:30:25Z")
I always feel bad about it because the only person I’ve ever run across with this name killed herself after being bullied (it was in the news), but seriously…who names their kid “Rehtaeh”? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/79 "2016-09-29T22:33:31Z")
Adam. And Eve. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527/80 "2016-09-29T22:47:35Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Name your girl Bertha and you might as well say “she’s gonna weigh 300 lbs!” That was my grandmother’s name, and during the WW II era, she may well have weighed that much. :eek: Yeah, she was called “Big Bertha” and even called herself that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-names-you-hate/766527.md?page=5)